So... if I understand correctly, it's okay to kill those who translate Scripture without RCC authorization. Also, the definition of heresy used to be "disagreement with the RCC". Killing heretics (aka those who aren't drones) was an institutional practice of the RCC for hundreds of years.
This is the "holy" and "infallible" Church of Christ??? Whatever happened to God's invitation to "reason together" given by the prophet Isaiah?
Me thinks many have been deceived into losing their eternal souls by an institution of men bent on their own aggrandizement and power.
Whatever happened to God's invitation to "reason together" given by the prophet Isaiah?
You've got be joking! LOL Ever heard of the word hypocrisy?
There is no such institution as the "RCC." There is One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I presume that you would prefer not to refer to it as such. But, if you expect a response from me, you can refer to it as the Catholic Church or Catholics or Catholicism. I, in turn, will refer to your denomination anyway you wish.
I am not so obtuse as to be unwilling to acknowledge that there was horrible and unnecessary bloodshed that was carried out for centuries "in the Name of Christ." And I believe that ALL SIDES bear guilt and responsibility for this. I think it is probably safe to say that the 100,000 people killed by followers of Martin Luther during the German Peasant's Revolt in the 1520s outnumbers the number of heretics the Church executed -- but in the end, BOTH WERE WRONG and totally devoid of Christ's Love.